Short Story

Forever Dream

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

It’s time once again for The Unicorn Challenge;
this is my 250 word response to the photo below.

© Ayr/Gray

“Tell me again, Tom.”

“It was a glorious day, greener than Killarney in spring. We were out for a stroll, the leaves sparkling with dew. You looked so beautiful, Maggie, you made my heart skip a beat. Bluer eyes than I’d ever seen and hair the aroma of fresh peaches. We stopped and I picked a wildflower. I don’t know how you did it but you twisted the stem and made a ring. That was the day we became ‘engaged’. You said we needed to walk under the branch that stretched out over the path to make it official. I held your hand and we walked to the middle of the little bridge. We stood there and I knew from that moment on we would always be together. That’s where I kissed you for the first time. We were very daring, you being an older woman and all. I was 11 and you were 13 but we knew then we were made for each other.”

“It’s exactly as I remember. Tell me more, Tom. Put your arm around me. I’m so very cold.”

“Do you recollect the day we walked into the woods and discovered that cabin? I called it a ‘dilapidated shack’; you said it was “our dream’. We fixed that place up good, filling it with dreams. We raised our family there and welcomed our grandkids. Now our grands are getting married. Three generations of dreams, Maggie. Maggie? Oh, my sweetest love. Sleep now and dream forever.”

NAR©2024
100 Words

The Unicorn Challenge-12/01/24

This is “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” by Louis Armstrong

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34 thoughts on “Forever Dream”

    1. Oh, I’m sure it’s absolutely stunning, CA. My husband went to Ireland for business but I’ve never been there. I still remember him telling me as his plane was flying over Ireland, he’d never seen anything so green in all his life!

      Thanks so much for a lovely comment, CA.

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  9. Och Nancy, what a beautiful, loving story.
    Romantic, cherishing – and never tippoing over into the ‘soppy’.
    It’s left me with a warm feeling…although I think she died!
    But was so loved, right to the end.
    And I love Louis.

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    1. Thanks you for your lovely comments, Jenne.
      Yes, she did die … in the arms of her lifelong love; the perfect way to go, not alone with strangers.
      Louis was a must have to close out this story; he was the greatest.
      Thanks once again, Jenne.

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  10. touching*

    * in that truly effective way that better stories offer, i.e. characters sharing themselves and their past. the emotional ‘sturm und drang’ left for the Readers to choose how to manifest and, subsequently feel all the more.
    to paraphrase Tip O’Neil, ‘Every story is personal.’

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